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| Thread ID: 66999 | 2006-03-14 01:00:00 | Business Benefits of Faster Broadband | Winston001 (3612) | PC World Chat |
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| 437885 | 2006-03-14 01:00:00 | The TVNZ doco referred to a $5 billion boost to the NZ economy if we all had faster broadband with higher caps. Hard to imagine especially when all of the uses promoted are streaming video, VOIP, and gaming. However there are businesses which would benefit which in turn would be good for the whole economy. So here is a chance for your suggestions of what applications you consider need fast high cap broadband. I'll start by suggesting: Exchanging CAD/CAM data remotely Editing of video and movie work Remote real-time supervision of surgery. What else? |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 437886 | 2006-03-14 01:02:00 | There are options already aroudn for high speed broadband aside from ADSL - particularly for big business like movie production. And seriously, would you want your surgery being supervised by someone over ADSL? |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 437887 | 2006-03-14 01:17:00 | There are options already aroudn for high speed broadband aside from ADSL - particularly for big business like movie production. And seriously, would you want your surgery being supervised by someone over ADSL? I thought you weren't commenting on these threads :rolleyes: |
plod (107) | ||
| 437888 | 2006-03-14 03:04:00 | I thought you weren't commenting on these threads :rolleyes:How could I not pass up the absuridty of surgery over ADSL... "Ok, now make the incision distal to the 4th ri.........." Error: No route to host "Hmmm... now what do I do with this here bleeding hole? Hello 123? Yeah my internet's not working! I need to sign up with Xtra? That doesn't make sense but ok, will it be installed before the anaesthetic wears off?" |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 437889 | 2006-03-14 03:13:00 | it is not surgery over ADSL - it is a senior doctor observing a junior doctor performing surgery. The person actually performing the surgery shouldn't have to rely on the senior doctor. | Greven (91) | ||
| 437890 | 2006-03-14 03:24:00 | Whoa there guys - you're hijacking my thread. :mad: But I value Ninja's input. Really I was just looking for positive ideas instead of all the Telescum whinging we get. Apparently medicine is already experimenting with remote surgery. One method is to use robot controls to actually do the work, and the other is the more conventional supervision as pointed out by Greven. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 437891 | 2006-03-14 03:30:00 | Even a small online marketing catalogue would be used much more if people could navigate round it at the click of a mouse rather than at the speed of an egg timer . I myself find that sometimes I do not look at some web pages because I think now if I click on that page, and it is not what I want I have wasted a few minutes of my precious time waiting for it to load and then going back to where I was . Regards Digby Tauranga |
Digby (677) | ||
| 437892 | 2006-03-14 04:11:00 | The benifit is time,and money. Which are perhaps the same thing. When my bizzo was in full swing I had orders and invoices going left right and centre, pricelists ,promotional material. All good and well, but even a file of a few MB stalled the entire process, I was also constantly getting required files from the net,updates, patches, apps. My requirments were gigabytes a week, not MB's a month. Most of which I had to source after hours on my home account, otherwise I woulld have blown my data cap within 3 days and owed Telecom thousands. Alternativly I could have upgraded my work plan, still paid telecom thousands for a poor value product. I would have hated to see the carnage if I had 4, 5, or 10 people trying to do the same tasks over the one feed. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 437893 | 2006-03-14 04:17:00 | Futhermore, The family bizzo, Trucking, dirtwork, demolition, machine hire, My old boy has been resisting computers for years. Now to tender on Government projects he has to do it online, Tender documents (hundreds of pages) Building plans, amendments, huge amounts of paperwork, all being forced online. He tries to do it with dialup.....Muhahahahaha. Once all this is 100 percent online he is going to need a big fat pipe pumping into his office, no doubt about it, and the reported savings to the country for every paper service switched onto an online model is in the hundreds of thousands. Hell, he even purchases all his equipment online, Sends data to the accountant, does his banking, and books in services for the large machinery. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 437894 | 2006-03-14 04:35:00 | Ninja, the services capable of transferring movies to LA, etc, are pure larceny . One crowd was flying their stuff to LA with a courier/minder, it was cheaper . Probably more reliable too ;) Research . I download a heap of PDFs, not just your 1, 2-10 meg jobbies, although they make up the majority, but 50, 60+ . That's not horrendeous on a 2mb connection, if it consistently ran at that speed, be even nicer on a 10mb which I guess is my next move, but the cost makes my eyes water a bit . NB: I realise that some servers won't be up to speed anyway . Tranfer of large files B2B rather than snail mail . Can't remeber the correct acronym but, online applications . Online data storage and backup . VOIP . Think of the time saved in offices all around the country and therfore increased productivity, if only the p0rn would download faster . :rolleyes: Remote operation from a central location of automated production lines . |
Murray P (44) | ||
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